Gender and Society Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Gender and Society explores the ways in which gender roles, identities, and relations are constructed and maintained within various social, cultural, and historical contexts. The course examines the impact of gender on individuals experiences, opportunities, and social interactions, addressing how gender intersects with race, class, sexuality, and other social categories. Through theoretical perspectives and case studies, students analyze the processes that shape gendered norms, the consequences of gender inequalities, and movements for gender justice and equality. The course encourages critical reflection on contemporary gender issues and promotes understanding of the complex relationship between gender and broader societal structures.
Recommended Textbook Gendered Lives 10th Edition by Julia T. Wood
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Chapter 1: The Study of Communication, Gender, and Culture
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Q1) There are two distinct genders,female and male.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Gender identity is the same thing as one's biological sex.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Which of the following persons would be accurately described as "cisgendered?"
A) A person born as a biological female who embodies both masculine and feminine characteristics.
B) A biological male who prefers romantic and sexual relationships with biological males.
C) A biological female who identifies as female and feminine.
D) A biological female who enjoys dressing in men's clothing.
E) A person whose biological sex is inconsistent with their gender identity.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Theoretical Approaches to Gender Development
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Q1) Four-year-old Caroline and seven-year-old Jenny are sisters who live and have been raised in the United States.Jenny plays a game in which she is a mother and her stuffed animals are her children.Jenny hugs them and pretends to carefully feed them.Later,young Caroline repeats the same hugging and feeding behaviors with her dolls.Caroline's mother sees this and states,"Caroline,someday you'll be a good mommy." How would anthropological theory of gender explain Caroline's behaviors? How would cognitive development theory explain Caroline's behaviors? Make sure you address "maternal instinct" in your answer.
Answer: The anthropological theory of gender would explain Caroline's behaviors in terms of culture.Society influences our understanding of norms for femininity and masculinity.Caroline is repeating behaviors identified with "good mothering" in U.S.society,which include nurturing mothers displaying devotion to their families.Caroline's mother may even believe that an innate "maternal instinct" is guiding Caroline's behaviors (pp.53-55).
Cognitive development theories of gender development would focus on Caroline as an active learner.She has realized "gender constancy" by age three and is thus highly motivated to learn to be "competent" in her sex and gender.In order to learn this,she has selected her sister as a model to learn how to "enact" femininity (pp.51-53).
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Chapter 3: The Rhetorical Shaping of Genderwomens
Movements in America
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Q1) Third wave feminism focuses on
A) daily acts of resistance.
B) insisting that the personal is political.
C) unifying feminists to create a single feminist movement.
D) creating structural change that will then affect individuals.
E) all of the above.
Answer: A
Q2) The backlash movement claims that
A) feminism has been effective in gaining equality for women so it is no longer needed.
B) feminism is the direct cause of personal and social problems that plague contemporary life.
C) women are not able to work in professional positions.
D) men have repressed women's advancement in careers.
E) both A & B.
Answer: E
Q3) Cultural feminist ideology
Answer: This feminist ideology asserts that women and men are essentially different and should have different rights,roles,and opportunities.Separatism is an example of a movement predicated on this philosophy.
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Chapter 4: The Rhetorical Shaping of Gendermens
Movements in America
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Q1) Men's rights activist
Q2) Identify the goals and the beliefs of the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP)and the White Ribbon Campaign (WRC).Then discuss similarities and differences between the two.Within your answer,define bystander behavior,indicate which group highlights this,and explain how the concept is relevant to thinking about our personal agency in shaping gendered attitudes and beliefs.
Q3) Bystander behavior
Q4) Traitorous identity
Q5) ____ movements are those who work to support feminist movements in addition to working to change the way masculinity is constructed in the U.S.
A) Free Men
B) Masculinist
C) Men's equality
D) Profeminist
E) No men's movements support feminism.
Q6) Profeminists endeavor to cultivate emotions that they feel have been suppressed by masculine socialization.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Gendered Verbal Communication
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Q1) Masculine speech community members are less likely than feminine speech community members to want to talk about the "state of the relationship."
A)True
B)False
Q2) Women who are effective public speakers tend to
A) Adopt a masculine style of speaking
B) Adopt a feminine style of speaking.
C) Adopt a style of speaking that balances masculine and feminine stylistic factors.
D) Adopt a style of speaking that is gender neutral; there are no masculine or feminine aspects to their style.
E) Women are almost never considered effective public speakers
Q3) Spotlighting
Q4) Those who exhibit the feminine speech community tendency to speak in a tentative manner are displaying low self-confidence.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Speech community
Q6) Tag question
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Chapter 6: Gendered Nonverbal Communication
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Q1) Artifacts
Q2) According to research presented in the Gendered Lives text,which of the following is true about smiling?
A) Women generally smile more than men.
B) Smiling is an example of haptics.
C) African-American women are socialized to smile more than Caucasian women.
D) Men generally smile more than women.
E) Research has shown that men and women smile about the same amounts.
Q3) Territoriality
Q4) Explain which nonverbal behaviors may be employed to exert power and control and examine the link to gender.
Q5) Haptics
Q6) Women tend to perceive touch from men as more threatening and invasive than men do.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Kinesics
Q8) Proxemics
Q9) Responsiveness
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Chapter 7: Becoming Gendered: The Early Years
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Q1) In the United States,a current theme in views of femininity is that women should establish closeness through talking with others in large relational networks.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Derek is frustrated because his girlfriend wants him to speak openly about his feelings,but his male friends make fun of him for showing.Which of the following elements of masculine socialization in the U.S.best describes both of these pressures Derek feels?
A) don't be female
B) be aggressive
C) follow the boy code
D) embody and transcend traditional views of masculinity
E) be successful
Q3) Ego boundaries
Q4) "Anatomy is destiny"
Q5) "Success-objects"
Q6) According to psychodynamic theory,how do most boys develop their gender identity?
Q7) Identification
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Chapter 8: Gendered Education Communication in Schools
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Q1) Socio-economic status,more than sex,is a factor in a student's success in higher education.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Elementary school classrooms are often unfriendly to boys,creating a poor foundation for success as boys continue their schooling
A)True
B)False
Q3) Culture of romance
Q4) Carolyn is a brilliant,but strict teacher who smiles rarely and is a tough grader.During a review,her department chair tells her she should warm up to the students and offer them more emotional support.Which of the following terms best describes the department chair's evaluation of how Carolyn should act?
A) hidden curriculum
B) hidden hand discrimination
C) invisible hand discrimination
D) invisible curriculum
E) none of the above
Q5) The Morrill Act of 1862
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Chapter 9: Gendered Close Relationships
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Q1) Gay and lesbian relationships tend to follow a best-friend model with the additional dimensions of sexuality and romance.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In heterosexual couples in which the woman earns substantially more than the man,the man performs the majority of household labor.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Reflect on a non-romantic,close,same-sex friendship.In what ways does your friendship match or deviate patterns of friendships described in the book?
Q4) Second shift
Q5) Male deficit model
Q6) In cross-sex friendships,women generally talk less than men.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Covert intimacy
Q8) The Mommy Myth
Q9) Co-rumination
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Chapter 10: Gendered Organizational Communication
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Q1) Microinequities
Q2) Lilly Ledbetter
Q3) "Family friendly" policies in the workplace have been shown to have which effect(s)?
A) They substantially increase the costs of running business.
B) They increase employee turnover.
C) They decrease employee turnover and entice potential employees.
D) They decrease productivity in the workplace.
E) They are preferred by women but not by men.
Q4) The Lilly Ledbetter Act of 2009:
A) Bars employers from retaliating against employees who disclose or ask about pay schedules.
B) States that wage discrimination occurs whenever an employee receives discriminary pay.
C) Overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine.
D) Requires federal employers to provide maternity leave for all employees.
E) Expands the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to include workers in same-sex relationships who need time to care for a partner or a partner's child.
Q5) Equal opportunity laws
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Chapter 11: Gendered Media
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Q1) A hair straightening treatment advertisement that appears next to a magazine article titled,"HOT: New smooth looks for summer hair!" is best described as:
A) complimentary copy.
B) product placement.
C) misandry.
D) synergy advertising.
E) an emphasis on visual images, which receives less conscious analysis than verbal claims.
Q2) Virgin and whore
Q3) Research has shown that if you are educated about and are aware of the impact,media will have little or no influence on you.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Your book discusses the ways in which relationships between men and women are portrayed in media.Choose two of the four themes and,using specific examples,explain how media depict men and women's relationships,including the implications of these portrayals.
Q5) Pathologizing the human body
Q6) Agenda-setting
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Chapter 12: Gendered Power and Violence
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Q1) Sexual slavery is a thing of the past.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In this form of genital surgery,a female's entire clitoris and parts of the labia minora are removed:
A) femilectomy
B) sunna
C) infibulation
D) clitoridectomy (excision)
E) revaganilization
Q3) Which of the following examples meets the definition of informed consent?
A) Vidhi is sold by her family and is forced to work as a prostitute.
B) Jake drinks alcohol until he passes out and then is sexually fondled by his romantic partner of 5 years.
C) Brittany agrees to have sex when she is 15-years-old with her 18-year-old romantic partner.
D) Amber is mentally disabled and lives in an assisted living facility. While checking on her, a nurse touches her breasts, unrelated to the care he is providing.
E) None of the above
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Chapter 13: Epilogue-looking Backward, Looking Forward
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Q1) Making time to think about issues raised in this book is part of developing your voice.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Parents influence their children's perceptions of gender through "voice" when they challenge sexist attitudes and practices in everyday life.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Most people agree that women and men are essentially the same and therefore should be treated the same.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is true of relationships between individuals and cultural views of gender?
A) Individuals may reproduce cultural views of gender.
B) Individuals may embody cultural views of gender.
C) Individuals may redefine cultural views of gender.
D) Individuals may challenge cultural views of gender.
E) All of the above.
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Chapter 14: Introduction: Opening the Conversation
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Q1) Identify and explain the stages people commonly undergo in the process of identifying with feminism.
Q2) Explain what the author of Gendered Lives means when she writes that privilege and disadvantage are unearned.
Q3) Being feminist is in conflict with being feminine.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Because our perspectives are limited by our social positions (e.g.,sex,class,race,sexual orientation)we can never fully understand the lives of people who differ from us.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Sexism is the fault of men.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Feminism
Q7) Terms such as "spouse," "husband," "wife," and "marriage" are inclusive of all people.
A)True
B)False
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